Real Farm Game - Now you can become a farmer too!
Award Winners
Aomori Prefectural Nakui Agricultural High School
Kenshin Ichizawa, Mai Idoue, Masahiro Fukuda, Yusuke Sakano, Akira Iwama, Shota Kubosawa, Miyu Kashima, Maika Ogasawara, Kenya Sasaki, and Ryu Shimamori
Rediscovering my hometown
- An open green tourism town
- 15% of the town is forest and farmland
- Healthy elderly people
Ways to revitalize the local area
First, we prepare a farm for use by customers from the Nanbu Town area and outside the prefecture. We then recruit members who want to become farmers. Members can grow their favorite vegetables there, but our "farm game" essentially involves a constant farm manager (a local, experienced farmer) on behalf of members. Even those who live in Tokyo and can only visit once a year can select crops, fertilizers, and pesticides online, just like in a farm game, and a local, experienced farmer will ensure that the tasks are completed. Another attractive feature is the ability to walk through your own field from the comfort of your own home using a webcam and head-mounted display. Not only will the crops you produce be delivered to your home, but you can also sell them. Proceeds are returned as vouchers for use at the farm, which can be used for membership fees or a guesthouse. Behind the virtual screen is the real countryside and fields. Even if you can't visit, you can still produce. You can also go and enjoy farming and nature, and experience the joy of selling your produce to customers—the true joy of farming. This rural business will not only alleviate the problem of idle farmland in Nanbu Town and give young people and the elderly in the farming village a sense of purpose, but it will also revitalize the local area and potentially lead to the revitalization of Japanese agriculture. This plan, which has rediscovered the town's treasures of agriculture, rural areas, and tourism and made them even more attractive through IT, is a new business that will be accepted by people of all ages and genders.
Secondary screening video material
Comments and points regarding the award
The proposal to use a game to farm, combining agricultural tourism with IT, was very interesting, as befits an agricultural high school. Furthermore, the fact that game players can solve various local problems is commendable, and the presentation was very easy to understand. Furthermore, the plan to sell the produce grown in real life was a very unique and interesting idea.
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